Remove All Childrens

[panel]

Hi
How to remove all childrens in display object?

[Morg]

Hey

What is the display object?

[Tink]

DisplayObjectContainer.removeAllChildren();

[senocular]

while(container.numChildren){
    container.removeChildAt(0);
}

Of course to be more robust, it would be even better if you weren't dependant on numChildren in the case that maybe the container has overriden remove methods to prevent the removal of some objects. Then, you could use something like

var i:int = container.numChildren;
while(i--){
    container.removeChildAt(i);
}

Otherwise, with the first example, it would be possible to get caught in an infinite loop.

[Assertnfailure]

I think you've got bigger problems if other developers are going around overriding method behaviors in such a way that previously common implementations stop working.

[springframework]

watch out with

DisplayObjectContainer.removeAllChildren();

for some reason it takes longer then looping through the list yourself.

i ran into problems where the the next line of code after removeAllChildren() did work correctly.

http://www.jessecouch.com

[senocular]

removeAllChildren is actually a method of Flex's Container class, not the Flash Player's core DisplayObjectContainer (so if you're using Flash, it won't be available).